SGI is not actually picking up the support contracts from their federal
contracts. It would be up to the customer to purchase [extend] the
contracts to SGI. I certainly agree with Joe. This is most certainly an
acquisition of assets, not a merger. SGI has traditionally been a house of
large compute [for one realm or another]. They're probably tired of being
underbid on machines from cluster manufacturers. Their answer is, of
course, the ICE product. Acquiring LNXI technology [specifically in
software] helps SGI to augment this.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Mark Hahn <hahn at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> >
>http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-14-2008/0004756539&EDATE=> >
> > For SGI's sake I hope this works out better than the Cray purchase.
>> could this be driven entirely by Linux Networx holding some large
> contracts
> with gov labs? I've never seen anything from LN that was drastically
> different from what's available through other means. SGI's cluster
> offerings
> are similarly commodity-based.
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